Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control

(asked on 26th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many holdings were tested for bovine tuberculosis using interferon gamma testing; how many animals were tested in each of those holdings using interferon gamma tests; and of those animals tested, how many tested positive in each county of England in 2019.


Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 5th March 2020

Monthly reports on Interferon-Gamma testing for Bovine TB are published on gov.uk, and can be found at https://data.gov.uk/dataset/f48e8d0a-f527-4f69-8aff-b07db7c26f09/interferon-gamma-testing-for-bovine-tuberculosis-monthly-reports-from-april-2016.

The number of holdings on which cattle were Interferon-Gamma tested in 2019 was 933.

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